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So in “True Blood’s" next-to-last episode, “Love Is To Die,” you might hope for some thrills, some twists, some sense that this entire season has been leading up to something big and powerful.

Not bloody likely.

Bill (Stephen Moyer) refused to drink Sarah (Anna Camp)'s blood and thus take the cure. He was ready for the True Death.

This didn’t sit well with his loved ones. Sookie (Anna Paquin) hauled off and got in a couple of good slaps; Jess (Deborah Ann Woll) won her supernatural emancipation.

Bill later told Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) he was doing it all for Sookie, so she could have something of a normal life. (Has he met Sookie?)

“It’s her light that pulls us in, just as she is pulled to our darkness,” Bill says, which is a nice bit of cornpone poetry.

Bill asks Eric to intervene on his behalf with Sookie, to convince her to let him call on her.

“I’m over a 1,000 years old. If I had an aptitude for marriage counseling, don’t you think I’d have figured it out by now?” Eric snipes, which is hilarious.

Why can’t Bill just pick up the phone?

Oh, right, he does that anyway.So the entire point of Eric seeing Sookie on Bill’s behalf is to tick off the Yakuza, who tie up Pam (Kristin Bauer Van Straten) and threaten her with a big old stake until Eric reveals that he was with Sookie.

And with the Yakuza ready to storm Castle Stackhouse, Bill shows up on Sookie’s doorstep.

Also this week: Jess turns to Hoyt (Jim Parrack) just when he and Bridget are having another barn-burner about his not wanting kids. How thrilling to spend so much of the final episodes on whiny, shrill newbie Bridget.

“I know him, but he doesn’t even know me,” Jess says, which confuses everyone, but Hoyt still chooses the red-headed vamp.

Jess spends much of the night telling Hoyt about what they were like. Apparently she can’t un-glamour him and give him back his memories? I can’t recall the show ever addressing this point.

But it’s still her version of their relationship and not his actual experiences, and this is why it seems as if she’s taking advantage of a guy with a concussion.

Speaking of concussions, Jason (Ryan Kwanten) comes to Bridget’s rescue and ices his junk to try to prove he’s a gentleman.

Bridget vows to teach him what a good man he is by denying him sexual intimacy, which is sort of what Violet was doing for months, hello, show, and if you’re saying Bridget will turn out to be as much a controlling shrew, I’m down with that.

This idea that the love of a good woman can change a man is the worst thing rom-coms have taught us and it screws up more relationships. It’s painful to see the cliché play out here. Better women than Bridget have tried to tame Jason.

Sam (Sam Trammell) leaves a note for Sookie, telling her he’s leaving town with his pregnant girlfriend Nicole and to come visit him in Chicago after the baby is born.

Goodbye, Sam! We forgot you were even on this show.

Even Ginger (Tara Buck) had more to do this season than you, and that’s saying everything.